# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98404"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-14T13:26:03.510Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:18:57.630Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98404"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98404.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98404"
title: "drm/virtio: Fix a NULL vs ERR_PTR() bug in virtio_gpu_user_framebuffer_create()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/virtio: Fix a NULL vs ERR_PTR() bug in virtio_gpu_user_framebuffer_create()\n\nSmatch complains that returning a NULL here will lead to a NULL pointer\ndereference in drm_mode_addfb2().  Return an error pointer instead."
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